[Foresight-devel] Re: x86 or x86_64 firefox...

[Paul Cutler]

As someone who has used Epiphany for the last 9 months, and wants to
move back to Firefox, the 64 bit of Firefox does seem much slower.  It
also freezes up for 5-10 seconds when loading some webpages (flash,
javascript?  I dunno), which is really annoying.  Can't scroll, switch
tabs or do anything.

My major issue is Flash support - which is more than just Firefox, as
it doesn't work in Epiphany either.  We need to be able to ship x86_64
with Flash enabled, in today's Youtube era, it's a must.

I'm not sure what you mean by plugins not working natively - I assume
it's Flash, Mplayer, etc.

How does the impending release of Firefox 3 affect this issue and
Foresight in the near future?

If shipping 32 bit Firefox makes the user experience better, I'd vote
for that, and if a user wants a 64 bit browser, Epiphany is still
there.

My 2 cents - I don't know all of the issues, or how hard it is to
address them.  I just like having stuff work.

Paul

On Feb 1, 2008 2:53 PM, Ken VanDine <ken at vandine.org> wrote:
> We need to discuss the importance of shipping x86_64 firefox.  It seems
> to be just to complicated, and I worry long term it will be a problem.
> Doing my own comparisions, x86_64 firefox uses allot more memory that
> x86 and the plugins do not work natively.  Is it really worth it?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --Ken
>
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